>> Well I started at Rollins College.
I received my Bachelor's in Arts from Rollins.
I came in wanting to be an actress.
That was my big dream when I graduated high school.
And I just got caught up with everything that Rollins offered.
So one of my passions was art.
I've been drawing and painting since I can remember.
So I ended up pursuing a studio art major.
But I wasn't super focused on it.
I was one of those students who wanted a very well-rounded education.
I have to say I took advantage of that liberal education that Rollins offered.
So I kind of combined my, I did an independent study my senior year
and I combined my philosophy classes and my art history classes with my studio art major
and I was very fortunate that Rollins was able to offer that kind of opportunity.
I've been trying to find a job in the nonprofit sector but with the economy not being so great
and then me only having really one previous nonprofit job
and a few volunteer gigs, it was very difficult.
So I decided I would probably, in addition to just picking up volunteer work again,
go back to school and see how far that would get me.
It was really the best option.
I took a year off pretty much and went to school full time.
I came back to the Museum at Rollins where I did my internship my senior year and volunteered
at the reception desk a couple of weekends.
I went to the museum of Art and volunteered during the summer as a studio assistant.
I got an internship in what is now the Art and History Museum at Maitland.
And I also volunteered there so I really ramped up my volunteered work as I was going to school.
And then at that time, being a Rollins alumni I received the emails
from careers services every couple weeks with the job listings that were available
and one of them was for Program of Public Allies which was in Central Florida.
At the same time I picked up another volunteer gig with a nonprofit in Orlando
and then got hired so I worked with them over the summer
and went to my public ally's interviews.
And the second one was basically a matching event, a sort of speed dating for interviews.
And I got matched with the Foundation for Foster Children actually and went ahead
and started my public allies program here in 2011-2012.